When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.

A statesman... must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and grasp the hem of His garment.

Laws are like medicine; they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil.

I do not regard the procuring of peace as a matter in which we should play the role of arbiter between different opinions ... more that of an honest broker who really wants to press the business forward.

Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.

You can't destroy the polish national-consciousness or Poles on the battlefield, but if you give them power, they will destroy themselves

We live in a wondrous time in which the strong is weak because of his moral scruples and the weak grows strong because of his audacity.